When You're Not OK: a toolkit for tough times

by Jill Stark

Overview

A gorgeously illustrated, warm and practical book of tips and wisdom to guide you through tough times.

This is a self-care manual for the days when you feel alone—the days when you worry that you’re too weird or broken or unfixable to be normal. With compassion, humor, and honesty, Jill offers signposts to help you find the path back to yourself.

Whether you’re having a bad day, or a run of bad days that seems never-ending, When You’re Not OK is an emotional first-aid kit for your body, mind, and soul, written by someone who’s been there too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950354115
Publisher:	Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.30(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist, author, and mental health advocate, with a career spanning more than two decades in both the UK and Australia. She spent ten years on staff at The Age covering health and social affairs as a senior writer and columnist. She now works as a freelance journalist, speechwriter, media consultant, content creator, and public speaker. Her first book, High Sobriety, was longlisted for the Walkley Book award and shortlisted for the Kibble Literary Awards. Her other books, Happy Never After and When You’re Not OK, are mental health memoirs offering hope and connection to anyone doing it tough.

Editorial Reviews

This snappy little manual...for those who are struggling and receiving negative messages from their inner critic…A handy, feel-good volume of tips and advice for contented living.”
—Library Journal

“Some of the writings are a page or two, some a paragraph, some just a sentence. They all cause the reader to pause and regroup…[A] delightful stocking stuffer for a dear friend or family member.”
—Miriam Downey, The Cyberlibrarian

Praise for Happy Never After:

“Extraordinary…Stark address[es] this vexed question of what effect our over-stimulated, almost constantly wired brains are having on our sense of well-being.”
—The Age

“This is a book we need. Highly, highly recommended. Puts a deft finger on many things that I guarantee have been quietly troubling you for a while. A book for our times.”
—Susan Carland, author of Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism

From the Publisher

05/01/2020

This snappy little manual comes from the author of High Sobriety, who writes for those who are struggling and receiving negative messages from their inner critic. Based on the author's experiences of getting through down times, the book tells readers how they can give themselves a break by loving their bodies, slowing down, being kind, and embracing various other thoughts and behaviors. Each page offers a simple idea (e.g., unplug, change your perspective, ask for what you need) that one can immediately put into practice. Readers can pick and choose among the various suggestions and implement each into a series of daily readings. VERDICT A handy, feel-good volume of tips and advice for contented living.

Library Journal